The article incorrectly shows FTR with a $1.00/annum dividend (note that we sourced this dividend data from Yahoo Finance, which had the wrong number). On May 13, 2009, FTR announced their annual rate would be $0.75 after their transaction with Verizon closed, which it did on July 1, 2010.

As we mentioned, short-sellers seem to think these rallies will reverse, but the inevitable short-covering might push these stocks even higher. It's a screen that you can use as a starting point for your own analysis...

BP, last trade at $31.83, target price at $55.00, currently trading at a -42.13% discount to the average analyst target price (based on survey of 12 analysts). BP isn't part of the S&P 500, which is why it didn't show up in the screen...

4 Stocks Snapped Up by Insiders Ahead of Earnings This Week [View article]

Yes, at first glance the insider buying doesn't seem significant. But when you consider the parameters of the screen, these companies deserve closer attention.

We started a screen on 200 companies with market caps above $300M reporting this week. We then crunched numbers on insider buying, and these are the ONLY companies that had net purchases over the last 6 months.

In other words, out of all the companies reporting this week (market caps > $300M), these are the only ones that didn't have net insider selling.

We thought that was important enough for an article. As always, we're not "pumping stocks" - we're trying to come up with interesting screens that you can use as a starting point for your own analysis.

Thanks for your comment. The dividend yields are sourced from Finviz. They might deviate slightly from Yahoo Finance, since they're sourcing forward dividend estimates from a different group of analysts.

Thanks for your message. We spend a lot of time building these screens, and hopefully they offer useful starting points to investors to do their own research. As far as we know, there aren't many screening tools that can combine technical, fundamental and sentiment data--we're always trying to combine new, interesting data points...

We also track the performance of each screen, and often recreate the most successful strategies for our users.

What kind of content do you prefer to read? Looking forward to your thoughts--always trying to help our followers find good ideas...

Good point - I just did a check with Audit Integrity (a forensic accounting firm), and it turns out that most of these stocks have very aggressive accounting practices. The scores in brackets represent values out of 100...